End of the Year Blog

This year was pretty difficult. Most of the time when somebody says that an English class is difficult, they mean that it was a heavy workload. That is not true at all in this case. When I say it is hard I mean that there is a ton of work, more than I think is necessary but that's not the point, and the work you do is very hard to do. So it is a lot of work which takes a lot of thinking. Had I done my homework everyday in every class I had, this class would have easily taken the most time. It took me probably an hour to an hour and a half on average every other day without doing all of the work. That is a lot in my opinion. Also, it's going to be even harder next year because of the new schedule. I think that all teachers, not just Ms Duke, are going to overestimate the amount of time we have for work everyday and assign way too much work. Sure, they will tone it down some from this year but I think that it won't be enough. Next year's schedule is going to suck.
Pretty much what we did this year was read a lot of books with some papers for some of them. The books we read were, Beowulf, Perceval, The Canterbury Tales, Hamlet, Great Expectations, Frankenstein, Heat of Darkness, and for me Things Fall Apart. I'm going to be straight forward and say that most of these books were terrible, because they were British, except for Things Fall Apart which was Nigerian. I learned lots of things from this class but one of the main things is that I do not want to ever learn any thing more about British literature. It's hard to explain but I enjoyed the class, but not the subject of the class. That's probably because most every class somebody got made fun of by Ms Duke. That was pretty funny.
The main movements we studied this year were the Beowulfian and Percavelian eras. I forgot what they are specifically called. Then we went on to Shakespearean, and after that to Victorian, then to Romantic, then to modernism/post colonialism and then finally to post modernism. A few of these were almost exactly the same characteristics as American literature, such as modernism and romanticism.
This was a hard class that involved a lot of work, but it was a very entertaining class.